Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2018, #06; Wed, 21)

> Yeah, my intent had been to circle back around to this, but I just
> hadn't gotten to it. I'm still pondering a config option or similar,
> though I remain unconvinced that the cases in which you've showed it
> being slow are actually realistic or worth worrying about (and certainly
> having an obscure config option is not enough to help most people). If
> we could have it kick in heuristically, that would be better.

> However, note that the cache-load for finding abbreviations _must_ have
> the complete list. And has been loading it for some time. So if you run
> "git-fetch", for example, you've already been running this code for
> months (and using the cache in more places is now a free speedup).
>
> At the very least, we'd want this patch on top, too. I also think René's
> suggestion use access() is worth pursuing (though to some degree is
> orthogonal to the cache).

> -- >8 --
> Subject: [PATCH] odb_load_loose_cache: fix strbuf leak
>
> Commit 66f04152be (object-store: provide helpers for
> loose_objects_cache, 2018-11-12) moved the cache-loading code from
> find_short_object_filename(), but forgot the line that releases the path
> strbuf.
>
> Reported-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
>  sha1-file.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/sha1-file.c b/sha1-file.c
> index 5894e48ea4..5a272f70de 100644
> --- a/sha1-file.c
> +++ b/sha1-file.c
> @@ -2169,6 +2169,7 @@ void odb_load_loose_cache(struct object_directory *odb, int subdir_nr)
>  				    NULL, NULL,
>  				    &odb->loose_objects_cache);
>  	odb->loose_objects_subdir_seen[subdir_nr] = 1;
> +	strbuf_release(&buf);
>  }
>  
>  static int check_stream_sha1(git_zstream *stream,